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Thom Yorke announces new solo dates

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Thom Yorke announces new solo dates
Thom Yorke has announced a pair of live performances in California. He will be joined by longtime producer Nigel Godrich and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri for both shows, which take place on December 12 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and on December 14 at the Fox Theater in Oakland. The two ...

Thom Yorke has announced a pair of live performances in California.

He will be joined by longtime producer Nigel Godrich and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri for both shows, which take place on December 12 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and on December 14 at the Fox Theater in Oakland.

The two dates are an addition to his previously announced appearance at Day for Night Festival in Houston, Texas on December 17.

Yorke has also announced his 2014 solo album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is being reissued via XL on December 8 on CD, vinyl and via streaming services.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Bob Dylan leads tributes to Tom Petty

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Bob Dylan leads tributes to Tom Petty
Bob Dylan has led the tributes to Tom Petty, who had died aged 66. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Dylan said: “It’s shocking, crushing news. I thought the world of Tom. He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.” Petty was found unconscious after suff...

Bob Dylan has led the tributes to Tom Petty, who had died aged 66.

In a statement to Rolling Stone, Dylan said: “It’s shocking, crushing news. I thought the world of Tom. He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.”

Petty was found unconscious after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Malibu home on Sunday, where he was rushed to UCLA Medical Centre and placed on life support.

Petty’s death was subsequently confirmed by Petty’s long-term manager Tony Dimitriades: “He died peacefully at 20:40 Pacific time (03:40 GMT Tuesday) surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends.”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played a final show last Monday [September 25], performing the last of three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl to conclude their 40th anniversary tour.

Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Carole King and more have also paid tribute to Petty on social media.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

A final 4,500 tickets released for Pink Floyd’s exhibition, Their Mortal Remains

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A final 4,500 tickets released for Pink Floyd’s exhibition, Their Mortal Remains
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains will extend opening hours as well as stay open for a period of 42 hours before it closes on October 15. Today [October 2] a final 4,500 tickets will become available. The Victoria & Albert Museum's most visited UK music exhibition, Their Mortal Remai...

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains will extend opening hours as well as stay open for a period of 42 hours before it closes on October 15.

Today [October 2] a final 4,500 tickets will become available.

The Victoria & Albert Museum‘s most visited UK music exhibition, Their Mortal Remains will open for the entire weekend of October 6 – October 8, welcoming visitors for 42 hours.

The Exhibition will also be opening its doors on selected days from 9:00am and will be open until 10:00pm where possible. Full available hours can be viewed by clicking here.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Previously unreleased Tim Buckley live recordings announced

Michael Bonner
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Previously unreleased Tim Buckley live recordings announced
Two double albums of unreleased Tim Buckley recordings are set to be released next month. Greetings From West Hollywood and Venice Mating Call collect live recordings from Buckley's 1969 shows at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. They will be released on October 13 on Edsel Records in the UK and Manif...

Two double albums of unreleased Tim Buckley recordings are set to be released next month.

Greetings From West Hollywood and Venice Mating Call collect live recordings from Buckley’s 1969 shows at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. They will be released on October 13 on Edsel Records in the UK and Manifesto in the US.

The records are the latest in a series of live albums released since Buckley’s death, including Live At The Folklore Center 1967 and Live At The Troubadour 1969.

You can hear “Buzzin’ Fly” below.

The tracklisting for Greetings From West Hollywood is:
Disc One:
Buzzin’ Fly
Strange Feelin’
Blue Melody
Chase The Blues Away
Venice Mating Call
Gypsy Woman
I Don’t Need It To Rain

Disc Two:
Driftin’
(I Wanna) Testify
Anonymous Proposition
Lorca
I Had A Talk With My Woman
Nobody Walkin’

The tracklisting for Venice Mating Call is:
Disc One:
Buzzin’ Fly
Strange Feelin’
Blue Melody
Chase The Blues Away
Venice Mating Call
Gypsy Woman
I Don’t Need It To Rain

Disc Two:
Driftin’
(I Wanna)Testify
Anonymous Proposition
Lorca
I Had A Talk With My Woman
Nobody Walkin’

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Pearl Jam release documentary film and soundtrack

Michael Bonner
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Pearl Jam release documentary film and soundtrack
Pearl Jam have released the documentary film Let’s Play Two and accompanying soundtrack album. Directed by photographer Danny Clinch, the film documents the band’s performances at Wrigley Field on August 20 and 22, 2016 during the Chicago Cubs' World Series championship season. Let’s Play Tw...

Pearl Jam have released the documentary film Let’s Play Two and accompanying soundtrack album.

Directed by photographer Danny Clinch, the film documents the band’s performances at Wrigley Field on August 20 and 22, 2016 during the Chicago Cubs’ World Series championship season.

Let’s Play Two screens in the UK on October 4. You can find all screening details by clicking here.

The soundtrack is released on CD and vinyl.

Tracklisting for the album is:

Low Light
Better Man
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Last Exit
Lightning Bolt
Black Red Yellow
Black
Corduroy
Given To Fly
Jeremy
Inside Job
Go
Crazy Mary
Release
Alive
All The Way
I’ve Got A Feeling

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Roger Waters to play London’s Hyde Park

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Roger Waters to play London’s Hyde Park
Roger Waters will play this year's Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park. He'll bring his Us + Them tour to London on Friday July 6, 2018. You can watch a trailer for the show below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F-Kq01H1BE&feature=youtu.be Ticket prices start at £65.00 for gene...

Roger Waters will play this year’s Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park.

He’ll bring his Us + Them tour to London on Friday July 6, 2018.

You can watch a trailer for the show below:

Ticket prices start at £65.00 for general admission, rising to £249.90. Barclaycard and fanclub presale begins today (Monday October 2) while tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday October 6.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time

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Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time
Bidin’ My Time, Chris Hillman’s first solo album in more than a decade, opens with a familiar tune: a new version of “Bells of Rhymney”, adapted by Pete Seeger from lyrics by the Welsh poet Idris Davies. Hillman has been living with the song for most of his life, having first recorded it for...

Bidin’ My Time, Chris Hillman’s first solo album in more than a decade, opens with a familiar tune: a new version of “Bells of Rhymney”, adapted by Pete Seeger from lyrics by the Welsh poet Idris Davies. Hillman has been living with the song for most of his life, having first recorded it for The Byrds’ 1965 debut, Mr Tambourine Man, an album that melded folk songs with electric guitars and invented a new genre, simply called folk rock. Naturally, Hillmans’ voice has changed over the last half-century, taking on a slightly gruffer grain and adding a soft twang to his syllables, but the guitars still chime like church bells and he still harmonises sweetly with former bandmate David Crosby and long-time collaborator Herb Pederson.

In the context of this lovely late-career comeback, which was produced by Tom Petty and features several members of the Heartbreakers, “Bells Of Rhymney” draws a straight line from the 2010s to the equally turbulent 1960s, and the lyrics have little to do with mining disasters in South Wales and everything to do with ageing folk rockers poring over memories of past glories. It becomes a song about folk rock, a song about The Byrds, a song about a generation trying to hold on to its fading dreams and deepest wishes. That bittersweet nostalgia colours every track that follows, as Hillman engages closely with his own past: not just the music he made, but the music he loves. He covers the Everly Brothers’ “Walk Right Back” with the faithfulness of a diehard fan and treats “When I Get A Little Money”, penned in 2016 by the Indiana singer-songwriter Nathan Barrow, like a lost classic.

While Hillman might have been overshadowed by his various bandmates living (Crosby, Stephen Stills) and dead (Gene Clark, Gram Parsons), he was an incredibly influential presence in the folk- and country-rock scenes of the 1960s. His background was bluegrass: he learned mandolin as a teenager and gigged around the Southern California circuit with the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers and the Golden State Boys (with future country star Vern Gosdin). Just when he was ready to give up music for an actual career, he was recruited to join The Byrds as a bass player, despite having never even touched the instrument. He remained with that group through massive hits and several lineup changes, finally jumping over to The Flying Burrito Brothers with Parsons. He played with Stills in Manassas in the 1970s, and in the ’80s enjoyed a series of country hits with Pederson and John Jorgenson in The Desert Rose Band. Since then he has toured as a solo artist and more recently as a duo with Pedersen. “I thought I really was done recording,” he says, “but along comes this record deal out of nowhere. Herb and Tom conjured up this idea to seduce me to do an album.”

The presence of Crosby and Roger McGuinn makes Bidin’ My Time as close to a Byrds reunion as we’re likely to get, and that alone makes the album compelling. Their voices still combine with a familiar magnetism, and Hillman manages to put fresh new twists on a few songs from their catalogue. “She Don’t Care About Time” was penned by Gene Clark for their other 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn!, but this new version sounds more like an afternoon’s reverie, as though Hillman was casually reminiscing about an old lover. And “New Old John Robertson” puts a fresh spin on a tune from 1968’s The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Hillman and McGuinn penned the song as a eulogy for an old man from Hillman’s hometown – who turned out to be a retired director of silent films, including 1920’s Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde. Hillman now brings a new perspective to the song, identifying more closely with the ageing artist even as he recasts the tale as a spry bluegrass number.

Bidin’ My Time draws from every corner of Hillman’s long career, mixing folk rock and country rock and bluegrass into an amiable sound, somehow both modest and ambitious. Except on the sentimental “Such Is the World That We Live In”, that nostalgia sounds inviting and well-earned. The clean, crisp production recalls Rick Rubin’s work on Petty’s 1994 album Wildflowers, and Hillman underscores that connection 
by covering the title track to close the album on a ruminative note. “You belong among the wildflowers,” he sings fondly, and he could be speaking to some old lover, or perhaps to Old John Robertson, or even to any of the old friends who came around to sing along.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

The 36th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

John Mulvey
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The 36th Uncut Playlist Of 2017
A few new tracks from previously teased albums surfaced this week, so please scroll down and check out further excellent music from Kamasi Washington, Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile and, best of all I think, The Weather Station. Also we have strong new singles from Ty Segall and Aldous Harding, and some...

A few new tracks from previously teased albums surfaced this week, so please scroll down and check out further excellent music from Kamasi Washington, Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile and, best of all I think, The Weather Station. Also we have strong new singles from Ty Segall and Aldous Harding, and something Satie-esque from Robert Haigh, who was my favourite junglist when he recorded as Omni Trio 20-odd years ago.

Plenty more here, of course. Further exposure to the Bitchin Bajas album makes me think it’s their masterpiece. Can’t wait to play you the Brigid Mae Power single (and also Beast, which is a new project by Koen Holtkamp from Mountains). RIP to Folke Rabe, master of drone. And don’t forget the Four Tet album drops tonight.

No idea now, two days on, why we played those Dexy’s singles, before you ask.

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1 Bitchin Bajas – Bajas Fresh (Drag City)

Bajas Fresh by Bitchin Bajas

2 Omar Souleyman – To Syria, With Love (Mad Decent/Because)

3 Robert Haigh – Creatures Of The Deep (Unseen Worlds)

Creatures of the Deep by Robert Haigh

4 Allah-Las – Covers #1 (Mexican Summer)

5 Brigid Mae Power – Don’t Shut Me Up (Politely) (Tompkins Square)

6 Claire M Singer – Fairge (Touch)

7 Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Bay Head (Three Lobed Recordings)

Bay Head by Gunn-Truscinski Duo

8 The Weather Station – The Weather Station (Paradise Of Bachelors)

9 Dire Wolves – Live At Union Pool, Brooklyn 2017 (NYC Taper/Bandcamp)

Live at Union Pool, Brooklyn 2017 by Dire Wolves

10 Dexys Midnight Runners – Marguerita Time (Mercury)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HUebxMiu9I

11 Dexys Midnight Runners – Because Of You (Mercury)

12 Alvarius B – With A Beaker On The Burner And An Otter In The Oven (Abduction)

13 Ty Segall – Alta (Drag City)

Alta by Ty Segall

14 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice (Marathon Artists/Matador)

15 Girl Ray – Earl Grey (Moshi Moshi)

16 Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Volume 3 (Headspin)

17 The Frightnrs – More To Say Versions (Daptone)

More To Say Versions by the FRIGHTNRS

18 Margo Price – All American Made (Third Man)

19 Blitzen Trapper – Wild & Reckless (Lojinx)

20 Lo Carmen Featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Sometimes It’s Hard (Chiquita)

21 Gregg Kowalsky – L’Orange L’Orange (Mexican Summer)

22 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Adios Senor Pussycat (Violette)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGolQl1RJFU

23 Folke Rabe – What?? (Dexter’s Cigar)

24 Aldous Harding – Elation (4AD)

25 Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference (XL)

https://wetransfer.com/thisworks/studios/wetransfer-studios-x-kamasi-washington-present-harmony-of-difference/

26 Steely Dan – Live In Memphis 1974 (Bootleg)

27 Beast – Beast Vols 1 & 2 (Pre-Echo)

28 Tim Buckley – Greetings From West Hollywood (Manifesto)

29 Nathan Bowles Trio – Live At Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree 2017 (Bandcamp)

Live at Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree 2017 by Nathan Bowles Trio

Willie Watson – Folksinger Vol 2

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Willie Watson – Folksinger Vol 2
As Old Crow Medicine Show moved through the Noughties, they steadily outgrew their reliance on old-time American folk and blues, opting instead to create their own brand of raw-boned, high-energy string music. It was a transition that brought a fair amount of success during Nashville’s Americana b...

As Old Crow Medicine Show moved through the Noughties, they steadily outgrew their reliance on old-time American folk and blues, opting instead to create their own brand of raw-boned, high-energy string music. It was a transition that brought a fair amount of success during Nashville’s Americana boom, but founder member Willie Watson clearly had unfinished business. Since quitting the band in 2012, having played on six studio albums, the singer-guitarist has re-immersed himself in the trad canon.

2014’s fine solo debut, Folksinger Vol 1, offered variants on tunes by Lead Belly, Utah Phillips and others, alongside thoughtful arrangements of songs from the public domain. This follow-up pretty much follows the same formula, with Watson once again bringing in David Rawlings as producer (the pair first collaborated during Watson’s early OCMS days, since when he’s also been a member of David Rawlings Machine).

This time around, however, they’re joined from time to time by Nashville veterans The Fairfield Four, a woodwind ensemble, Punch Brothers bassist Paul Kowert, OCMS man Morgan Jahnig and, making a low-key appearance on drums, Rawlings’ partner Gillian Welch. Not that it feels remotely crowded. The guest contributions manage to be both telling and subdued, adding discreet shades of colour to Watson’s nimble picking style and the warm, conversational 
lilt of his voice.

His version of “Gallows Pole”, the centuries-old plea for deliverance once popularised by Led Zeppelin, is a thing of true beauty, Watson’s vocal ushered in on a lonely harmonica and carried aloft by oboe. Elsewhere, he uses Furry Lewis as a guide for the silvery “When My Baby Left Me”, his slide guitar punctuated by dry percussive tappings. Watson also proves himself a master of the nuances of banjo, be it grounding gospel spiritual “Dry Bones” in the earth or ensuring that “John Henry” shifts along as quickly as the fabled steel hammer. Watson is no rigid traditionalist, allowing these songs the fluidity that interpretation demands. Above all, the universal motifs of loss, redemption and freedom from bondage are brought home in moving, understated style.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Bowie: A Life In Pictures

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Bowie: A Life In Pictures
Not content with the latest issue of Uncut (full details here) and our Ultimate Music Guide to Prince, we’re releasing another new magazine this Thursday. Bowie: A Life In Pictures is possibly our most opulent production yet, a treasure trove of authentically rare photographs in an ultra-collectab...

Not content with the latest issue of Uncut (full details here) and our Ultimate Music Guide to Prince, we’re releasing another new magazine this Thursday. Bowie: A Life In Pictures is possibly our most opulent production yet, a treasure trove of authentically rare photographs in an ultra-collectable, none-more-glam mirrored cover. If you can’t make it to a UK shop, it’s available from Uncut’s online shop.

Bowie: A Life In Pictures is a lavish tribute to pop’s greatest chameleon, the artist who understood that the image could be just as revolutionary as the music. John Robinson and a team of meticulous Bowie obsessives have channelled all their passion and expertise into this latest magazine from the Uncut stable, which uses classic and rare photographs to fully chronicle how Bowie’s taste for reinvention changed the way pop stars looked – on a yearly basis.

From salvaged shots of Bowie’s earliest and most fleetingly active R&B bands, to his years as a bohemian, his breakthrough as Ziggy Stardust and the superstardom beyond, David Bowie: A Life In Pictures plots a dramatic course through each chapter in the artist’s 50 year career.

Bowie’s career took unpredictable turns – into movie-making, away from the public eye and back into the mainstream – but Bowie: A Life In Pictures follows him closely. Whether in posed portraits, intimate candids or thrilling reportage, every step of Bowie’s career – even his decade of his retirement – is handsomely illustrated. Discerning collectors will even note the presence of the occasional previously unpublished image.

We’re happy. Hope you’re happy too…

Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus

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Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
At 86 (87 on September 7), the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is the elder statesman among the survivors from jazz’s heroic age. They’re even talking about renaming the Williamsburg Bridge after him, in recognition of a famous sabbatical from public performance in the 1950s during which h...

At 86 (87 on September 7), the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is the elder statesman among the survivors from jazz’s heroic age. They’re even talking about renaming the Williamsburg Bridge after him, in recognition of a famous sabbatical from public performance in the 1950s during which he searched for new musical solutions while playing alone on the windswept walkway, high above the East River, 
of the structure connecting Lower Manhattan with the district of Brooklyn from which it takes its present name.

Rollins’ return to action in 1959, when he felt ready to meet the challenge posed by the emergence of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, is mentioned in Robert Mugge’s documentary, a time capsule dominated by two performances from 1986, the year in which the film was made. Mugge begins and ends with extracts from an open-air performance at a sort of jazz picnic in the Saugerties, in upstate New York. Fronting his regular band of the time, Rollins unfurls extended improvs that show him at his most compelling and his most troublesome: tired rhetorical motifs investigated to the point of exhaustion alternate with brief bursts of astonishing invention.

The musical core of the film, however, is the performance in a Tokyo hall of the specially commissioned Concerto For Tenor Saxophone And Orchestra, on which he collaborated with the Finnish jazz composer Heikki Sarmanto. Sonny with strings turns out to be unfailingly pleasant and sometimes a little more than that, provoking the featured soloist to passages of concentrated lyricism, but it failed to establish a significant place in his large body of work. There are a couple of interviews with Rollins, filmed in New York and Tokyo; at one point he says that he is “closer to my saxophone than to Lucille” – his wife, who is sitting next to him.

We also hear thoughtful assessments from the critics Ira Gitler, Gary Giddins and Francis Davis, who pinpoints a reason why Rollins, although an acknowledged master, has not commanded the same degree of devotion as Coltrane or Coleman: “He never formed a band in his own image… And in a way that almost enhances his appeal, that lack of context. Sonny Rollins is the single most excellent standard of jazz you can possibly imagine.” But to appreciate that standard to the full, you would need to go back to something like the 1957 Blue Note recordings from the Village Vanguard, which is to say before the emergence of rivals chipped away at the young giant’s seemingly ironclad self-confidence, undermining his sense of his own place in the modern world he’d helped create.

EXTRAS: 6/10. Updated commentary by director Robert Mugge.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Gospel According To Al Green

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Gospel According To Al Green
Besides being one of the most joyful and powerful film profiles of a major musical artist ever made, Gospel According To Al Green adheres awfully well to Willie Mitchell’s description of a great song. Al Green’s closest collaborator during the first secular phase of his career, Mitchell explains...

Besides being one of the most joyful and powerful film profiles of a major musical artist ever made, Gospel According To Al Green adheres awfully well to Willie Mitchell’s description of a great song. Al Green’s closest collaborator during the first secular phase of his career, Mitchell explains that a song shouldn’t stay in one place. Instead, it should be like “climbing a mountain”. When you “don’t have any more elevation”, it’s time to fade it out or cut it off. The real magic, Mitchell implies, is figuring out how high you can climb.

Evidently, director Robert Mugge was listening carefully to Mitchell’s advice, judging by the film’s ecstatic finale – a glorious 30-minute sequence featuring Green in full flight, singing and preaching to his congregation. It is rich reward for Mugge’s persistence; the US director chased Green for 13 months for permission to interview and film him in action.

The documentary – newly restored for this DVD and Blu-ray edition – was Mugge’s second project for Channel 4 after Black Wax, his 1982 film on Gil Scott-Heron. Though he was initially asked to profile gospel star Andraé Crouch, Mugge believed Green made for a more compelling subject, the singer having turned away from soul in the late ’70s to help spread the gospel as the minister of his own Baptist church in Memphis. After getting Green’s approval, Mugge hastily arranged to shoot the church’s seventh-anniversary celebration in 1983 with three 16mm cameras and a 24-track recording truck. It was the first (and apparently still the only) service by Green to be extensively filmed.

A few months later, Mugge shot Green and his band performing at an American Air Force base in Washington, DC. As presented here in the original film’s 4K restoration, the results of both shoots are stunning. Indeed, it’s another testament to Mugge’s talent and fortitude that he’s able to keep a camera steady on his exuberant subject as he bounces on his heels before his lectern in his tan-coloured suit, or bounds through the DC crowd to shake hands and share love.

Despite his initial reticence, Green made for a remarkably warm and candid subject during the film’s central interview, shot during rehearsals for the service. Though Green’s more jubilant when reflecting on his hard-won breakthrough with “Tired Of Being Alone” and the “charge of electricity” that prompted his conversion in 1973, he’s still plenty forthcoming on the topic of “the incident”. That was the night in 1974 when then-girlfriend Mary Woodson scalded him with hot grits before fatally shooting herself in his home. Speaking about it publicly for the first time, he relates the sad and grisly details like a man who can scarcely believe the story himself. “Did that actually happen?” he wonders. “I’m asking you – I’m not playing it for the movie.” He’s similarly frank about the complications caused by his newfound faith as he wrestled with his decision to change course: “I mean, I got a million-dollar career going here and I’m telling people they got to talk to Jesus?”

Perhaps what’s most surprising about Mugge’s film is how much it complicates any presumptions about the lines Green drew between the secular and the spiritual when he cast his thoughts heavenward. For instance, he has no apparent misgivings about leading his musicians and singers through a rendition of “Let’s Stay Together” in the rehearsal studio. What’s more, he freely and enthusiastically admits to applying the lessons he learned as a soul performer to his role as a man of God. “I took what I learned from the rock’n’roll,” he says. “The ingenuity, the class, the charisma, the steps, the movement, the hesitation, the wait, the way to be curious. You take all of this that you learn in pop and rhythm-and-blues and you use it to your best advantage.”

The additional ingredient, of course, is the “spiritual fire”. That’s what we witness in Gospel According To Al Green’s sublime finale, along with the astonishing prowess of a rare performer who’s able to surrender to the moment yet remain utterly in command.

EXTRAS: 8/10. Along with overseeing the original film’s 4K remaster, Mugge also created a new seven-minute Making Of doc. The set includes the complete audio of the interview and the whole anniversary church service, an extended sequence for one song, and a phone message by Green for Mugge.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Hype!

Stephen Deusner
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Hype!
“We were the guys in high school that people used to beat up, and we couldn’t talk to the pretty girls,” Van Conner explains partway through the 1996 music documentary Hype!. “We’re nerds, goddammit!” He’s talking about his band Screaming Trees, but the bass player is also talking abou...

“We were the guys in high school that people used to beat up, and we couldn’t talk to the pretty girls,” Van Conner explains partway through the 1996 music documentary Hype!. “We’re nerds, goddammit!” He’s talking about his band Screaming Trees, but the bass player is also talking about nearly everybody in the Seattle music scene, none of whom resembles the traditional rock star. There’s a chuckle in Conner’s voice, but also pride: rather than the angst-ridden young men long identified with grunge, most local musicians were just regular people driven indoors by the constant rain and a fanatical love of rock music. They weren’t bred to be celebrities. They were rock geeks.

That discrepancy between how Seattle saw itself and how the rest of the world saw Seattle is the main theme of Hype!, directed by Doug Pray (Scratch, Surfwise) and now out in a 21st- anniversary Blu-ray edition. Anyone hoping for a nostalgic tour of the city will be sorely disappointed. Released in 1996 but filmed just as the aftershocks of grunge were dying down, the film is highly sceptical of the attention given to the local scene, and most of the talking heads refuse to surrender any further autonomy to major labels and magazine photo spreads.

Seattle had long sat in a remote corner of America, half-forgotten by the rest of the country and ignored by touring bands reluctant to trek so far out of their way. As the film explains, that isolation, coupled with the rainy climate, created a rabid music scene with a staunch DIY ethos and a surprisingly diverse range of sounds demonstrated here by kinetic live clips from the Monomen, Blood Circus, Dead Moon and, yes, Nirvana. The Posies and The Fastbacks couldn’t have been more different from Tad and Mudhoney, yet they all played the same clubs for the same fans and released records on the same small labels: Estrus, K, PopLlama, Sub Pop. In fact, one of the most entertaining passages in Hype! is a supercut of musicians listing short-lived, obscure but beloved local bands, some of which existed only for a handful of shows and a 7-inch, but not long enough to regret their choice of names: Bundle Of Hiss, Skin Yard, Cat Butt, Butt Sweat.

Just as that scene seemed to be waning, a second wave of bands sprang up in their wake, including a trio from nearby Aberdeen, Washington, whose drummer pounded hard, whose bass player thumped out melodic sludge, and whose singer had an esophagus lined with rusty barbed wire. They signed with a local label called Sub Pop for their first record, called Bleach, and graduated to a major label for their second record, Nevermind. When that album made them stars, every A&R guy and music journalist headed west to find more bands like Nirvana. When they didn’t find them, they essentially invented them.

At this point Hype! becomes something like a zombie film, with the last humans boarding themselves up in a farmhouse to battle the invading horde. In the rush to capitalise on the new youth culture that grunge represented, Seattle was exploited and then distorted, a vibrant scene pared down to a handful of flannel-clad bands writing introverted anthems about inner turmoil and emotional anguish. Almost everyone interviewed for the documentary expresses feelings of disenfranchisement and bitterness, as though their autonomy has been wrenched away from them. They brandish irony as a defence mechanism, whether it’s Sub Pop receptionist Megan Jasper trolling the New York Times with made-up slang (“Swingin’ on the flippity-flop”) or producer Jack Endino embracing 
the goofy job title “Godfather Of Grunge”.

These artists wielded irony as a weapon against pop-cultural gentrification, although it easily curdles into something equally destructive. Sub Pop founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman are portrayed as overly clever businessmen appropriating local DIY culture and marketing their label with LOSER T-shirts. All that distinguishes them from the invading forces is a smirk and a local zip code. As it explores this particular mindset, Hype! becomes more than just a documentary about a music scene. Especially viewed from the perspective of the late 2010s, the film is an artefact of a very different era and a very different attitude toward success. Pray might be criticised for not incorporating other viewpoints into his film, for not interviewing fashion designers, rock journalists and record execs to offset the suspicions of the locals. By excluding other points of view, however, he demonstrates how history might be written by the losers.

EXTRAS: 7/10. New audio commentary with Doug Pray, vintage interviews, live clips, outtakes, an animated short by Seattle cartoonist Peter Bagge.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Borg vs McEnroe

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Borg vs McEnroe
The on-court Sturm und Drang of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe has already been the subject of one HBO documentary. Now, Danish director Janus Metz has assembled a staunch biopic about the two Wimbledon champions that owes a debt to Rush, a film that dramatised another real-life international sporting ...

The on-court Sturm und Drang of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe has already been the subject of one HBO documentary. Now, Danish director Janus Metz has assembled a staunch biopic about the two Wimbledon champions that owes a debt to Rush, a film that dramatised another real-life international sporting rivalry, between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The focus is build up to the 1980 Wimbledon final – between “the baseline player and the net rusher” – when a television audience of 17.3 million viewers watched Borg chase his fifth straight title on Centre Court.

Newcomer Sverrir Gudnason plays the Swede as a stoic, dedicated athlete who is uncomfortable being recognised walking down the street. Shia LaBoeuf, meanwhile, is the temperamental McEnroe. The narrative leans heavily on their contrasting dispositions – scenes of McEnroe partying are cut against Borg in his hotel room, diligently measuring his pulse rate. The further McEnroe progresses through the tournament, the more enraged he becomes by the media focus on his behaviour, while Borg increasingly shuts himself down, wrestling to keep an unspoken anxiety in check. “Can’t you just talk about the tennis?” Says an exasperated MacEnroe; can’t Borg just talk at all?

Sports commentators act as a kind of Greek chorus, filling in exposition as required (“McEnroe is the bigger talent, but playing Borg is like being hit by a sledgehammer”), allowing Gudnason and LaBoeuf to get on with more actorly work. Gudnason is good as the enigmatic Bjorg, eventually making an introverted, enigmatic character likeable. LaBoeuf has been enjoyably unhinged in films lately – American Honey – and he chews his way greedily through McEnroe, savouring every unpredictable tic, cuss and hissy fit.

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The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Jane Birkin on the music that shaped her: “It was good for the morale, to have a bit of Chopin with your new boyfriend”

Tom Pinnock
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Jane Birkin on the music that shaped her: “It was good for the morale, to have a bit of Chopin with your new boyfriend”
Jane Birkin took us through her life in music in the June 2017 issue of Uncut, but here's the full version, in which Jane recalls dealing with bomb threats with Serge Gainsbourg, learning about classical music with John Barry, and being mistaken for Françoise Hardy… ____________________________...

Jane Birkin took us through her life in music in the June 2017 issue of Uncut, but here’s the full version, in which Jane recalls dealing with bomb threats with Serge Gainsbourg, learning about classical music with John Barry, and being mistaken for Françoise Hardy…

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Judy Campbell
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1939
My mother was on the sheet music, and she was the muse, she was the one that Eric Maschwitz wrote for. He also wrote the lyrics for “These Foolish Things” for her too – “the phone that didn’t answer” was my mother. She was an inspiring force for those songs, yes. She sang it in England for the morale for the troops, of course, but also in the theatres during the bombs in London. She was good fun – and when the bombs used to drop to left or right of the theatre, she used to cup her ear in her hand, and then wait for the bomb to go off, and then go on singing, and people were standing up cheering. I didn’t know this until she died, someone told me, because she went off to sing “A Nightingale…” after 9/11 and they remembered having seen her in London during the bomb raids. I wish I’d known, just to have had her memories, really, it would have been nice. I heard her singing this, but when she was very very old. I think the very original song on those albums that you could break over someone’s head, which if I remember right, between my parents I think they were all broken. And then of course Vera Lynn took it over, and exasperatingly her version is the one that often gets played – but it was ma who started off with it. If anyone has a version of it, I’d be very very pleased! I think I’ve got one of the original records, but it’s very scratched.

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Elvis Presley
Are You Lonesome Tonight
1960

I was at boarding school, I was able to dance with the girl I adored, who was my superior in every way. It was for senior dancing, at an all-girls school, and I just remember dancing with Jane Welkley to “Are You Lonesome Tonight”. I’d bought what someone made me believe was the heart of a tree, and I’d put it in Bronco toilet paper, and I had it in my pocket to slip her at the end of the song. Because I think she was leaving the school or something. I just remember the passion I had for this beautiful, beautiful girl, and how she was No 1 in everything, and I was always letting her down. Everytime she saw me, it was, “Oh, Jane…” I could never get good enough reports for her, and I could never be the head of the house… I remember I painted a poster for Scott, our house, and that she asked me to do that, and that I felt that I’d done quite well, but nothing really in comparison to her beauty. I should think she was a couple of years older than me. It all seems very much older when you’re that age. I used to clean her plimsolls, and then by the time I got to be what her age was, another little girl was cleaning my plimsolls! Sort of tragic affairs of the boarding school… The cycle goes on. I think this was when I was 12, it was sort of Elvis’ second coming around, so I think perhaps he wasn’t shocking any more. I wasn’t brave enough to say Elvis Presley for being the person I thought about the most – Cliff Richard was the one I had pinned up above my bed, in a bathing suit, I think, unappropriately! I think my mother took us off to see Summer Holiday and she was very much disapproved of for having dared to take these schoolchildren of 14 off to see this shocking musical. It can’t have been very shocking, but it was for the other girl’s parents – my mother had a mauve sports car, which probably added to the thrill! So I’d like to say it was Elvis Presley right from the start and show how knowlegable I was about music, but it was in fact Cliff who was the one who was closest to my heart. He was good!

The 35th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

John Mulvey
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The 35th Uncut Playlist Of 2017
Hey, big week for modern kosmische I guess, as we’ve taken delivery of the tremendous, free jazz-inclined new Bitchin Bajas album, plus a set from Gregg Kowalsky from Date Palms. And I guess James Holden’s fine record fits that description too: there’s also a new track from “The Animal Spiri...

Hey, big week for modern kosmische I guess, as we’ve taken delivery of the tremendous, free jazz-inclined new Bitchin Bajas album, plus a set from Gregg Kowalsky from Date Palms. And I guess James Holden’s fine record fits that description too: there’s also a new track from “The Animal Spirits” if you scroll down.

What else? I’ve found a link to Goran Kajfes’ latest adventurous collection of jazz covers; the lesser-spotted Neil Young (in 2017, at least), letting rip again with The Promise Of The Real; an epic new Alvarius B project from Alan Bishop; and an absolute killer single (Think Ryley’s “West Wind”) from Brigid Mae Power. I’ll stick that one on Twitter as soon as I get it.

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1 Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Bay Head (Three Lobed Recordings)

Bay Head by Gunn-Truscinski Duo

2 Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Volume 3 (Headspin)

3 Nathan Bowles Trio – Live At Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree 2017 (Bandcamp)

Live at Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree 2017 by Nathan Bowles Trio

4 Chris Gantry – At The House Of Cash (Drag City)

5 Neil Young & The Promise Of The Real – Like A Hurricane (Live At Farm Aid 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fZn4FCn-Y

6 Rostam – Half-Light (Nonesuch)

7 Margo Price – All American Made (Third Man)

8 Tim Buckley – The Dream Belongs To Me: Rare And Unreleased Recordings 1968-1973 (Edsel)

9 St Vincent – Masseduction (Loma Vista)

10 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice (Marathon Artists/Matador)

11 Belly – Untogether (4AD)

12 Brooklyn Raga Massive – Terry Riley In C (Northern Spy)

13 Tim Buckley – Greetings From West Hollywood (Manifesto)

14 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Adios Senor Pussycat (Violette)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGolQl1RJFU

15 James Holden & The Animal Spirits – The Animal Spirits (Border Community)

16 Claire M Singer – Fairge (Touch)

17 Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference (XL)

18 Steely Dan – Live In Memphis 1974 (Bootleg)

19 Tim Buckley – Venice Mating Call (Manifesto)

20 Alvarius B – With A Beaker On The Burner And An Otter In The Oven (Abduction)

21 Bitchin Bajas – Bajas Fresh (Drag City)

Bajas Fresh by Bitchin Bajas

22 Brigid Mae Power – Don’t Shut Me Up (Politely) (Tompkins Square)

23 Laura Baird – I Wish I Were A Sparrow (Ba Da Bing)

24 Four Tet – Scientists (Text)

25 Joshua Abrams – Music For Life Itself & The Interrupters (Eremite)

Music For Life Itself & The Interrupters by Joshua Abrams

26 Pearls Before Swine – One Nation Underground (Drag City)

27 Gregg Kowalsky – L’Orange L’Orange (Mexican Summer)

Nico! Shirley Collins! The Slits!

Michael Bonner
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Nico! Shirley Collins! The Slits!
Pleased to say, fans of music films are spoiled over the next few weeks, with a strong selection of docs and drams showing at two imminent London film festivals. Raindance - which runs from September 20 - October 1 - kicks off a solid line-up with On The Sly: In Search Of The Family Stone, which I ...

Pleased to say, fans of music films are spoiled over the next few weeks, with a strong selection of docs and drams showing at two imminent London film festivals.

Raindance – which runs from September 20 – October 1 – kicks off a solid line-up with On The Sly: In Search Of The Family Stone, which I wrote about recently in Uncut, and Teenage Superstars, Grant McPhee’s look at Glasgow’s indie music scene in the mid-Eighties.

Things move swiftly on with Stooge – a film about Robert Pargiter, Iggy Pop’s No1 fan – and Melody Makers, about my alma mater though, mercifully, it focuses on a period long before I turned up to spoil the party. Interestingly, there’s also a doc on PiL called The Public Image Is Rotten – though, alas, I can’t find a trailer for it at the moment.

On The Sly: In Search Of The Family Stone

Teenage Superstars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOzNCacVFT0

Stooge

Melody Maker

The Public Image Is Rotten

Meanwhile, over at the BFI London Film Festival – which runs from October 4 – 15 – you can see the splendid documentary on England’s first lady of folk, The Ballad Of Shirley Collins, and a film about another of music’s grande dame – Marianne Faithfull, as captured by Sandrine Bonnaire.

One film I am very much looking forward to is Nico, 88, which appears to cover the same period as James Edward Young’s excellent book, Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio. There’s also a documentary on The Slits, G-Funk and – this looks pretty essential – Bamseom Seoul Pirates Inferno, about Korean punk band, Bamseom Pirates. Sample lyric: “Grandma our roof is leaking / Don’t worry son, Twitter will save us!” For more heartwarming fare, there’s The Drummer And The Keeper – the first feature from former musician, Nick Kelly.

I hope you agree, it looks like there’s plenty out there to enjoy.

The Ballad Of Shirley Collins

Faithfull

Nico, 88

Here to be Heard: The Story Of The Slits

Bamseom Seoul Pirates Inferno

G Funk

The Drummer and the Keeper

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The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

In Between reviewed

Michael Bonner
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In Between reviewed
When In Between was released in Israel at the start of the year, the Palestinian writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud received attention from some unexpected quarters. First, the authorities in Umm al-Fahm, one of the country’s largest Arab cities, tried to ban the film; shortly after, Hamoud received...

When In Between was released in Israel at the start of the year, the Palestinian writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud received attention from some unexpected quarters. First, the authorities in Umm al-Fahm, one of the country’s largest Arab cities, tried to ban the film; shortly after, Hamoud received the first Palestinian Fatwa issued since 1948. In Between – Bar Bahar in Arabic – focuses on three women living in the centre of Tel Aviv, away from their families and the weight of tradition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPiVZj8Mm7o

There is Laila (Mouna Hawa), a lawyer, and Salma (Sana Jammelieh), a DJ, who are both immersed in the city’s underground scene – we meet them first at a club, taking cocaine in a backroom with a group of friends. A new flatmate arrives – Nour (Shaden Kanboura) – a hijabi from a small village. While her outlook seems initially opposed to Laila and Salma’s progressive lifestyle, Hamoud is more concerned with finding an equitable balance among this irregular sisterhood. They are all caught between their conservative Palestinian culture and a more liberal Israeli state that does not regard them as equals.

On a more personal level, they are all experiencing relationship problems. Despite his supposed independent credentials, Laila’s boyfriend turns out to be yet another conservative male. Salma, a lesbian, takes her latest girlfriend to meet her unwitting parents – at a meal designed to introduce Salma to a potential husband. Meanwhile, Nour’s ghastly fiancé, Wissam (Henry Andrawes) – an ostensibly pious traditionalist who disproves of her studies and views Laila and Salma as corrupting influences – finally reveals his true colours. The three leads are uniformly excellent. Although Hawa and Jammelieh have the more colourful roles, nevertheless Kanboura is given more opportunities to convey wider emotional range. Her quiet, studious Nour is the emotional centre of Hamoud’s brilliant film.

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The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

Read the complete tracklisting for Bob Dylan’s Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13

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Read the complete tracklisting for Bob Dylan’s Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13
Bob Dylan's 'gospel years' are to provide the focus for the next instalment of his ongoing Bootleg Series. Trouble No More - The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 is released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on November 3. Uncut has covered this period before – in a mammoth, two-part e...

Bob Dylan‘s ‘gospel years’ are to provide the focus for the next instalment of his ongoing Bootleg Series.

Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 is released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on November 3.

Uncut has covered this period before – in a mammoth, two-part exploration of Dylan’s Eighties. You can read part one by clicking here and part two by clicking here.

The 9 disc (8CD/1DVD) box set contains 100 previously unreleased live and studio recordings including 14 unreleased songs. The set also includes Trouble No More: A Musical Film, a new feature-length film incorporating never-before-seen footage from Dylan’s 1980 tours.

The set will also be available in 2CD and four-LP configurations featuring the first two discs from the deluxe box.

The tracklisting for the deluxe edition is:

Disc 1: Live
Slow Train (Nov. 16, 1979)
Gotta Serve Somebody (Nov. 15, 1979)
I Believe in You (May 16, 1980)
When You Gonna Wake Up? (July 9, 1981)
When He Returns (Dec. 5, 1979)
Man Gave Names to All the Animals (Jan. 16, 1980)
Precious Angel (Nov. 16, 1979)
Covenant Woman (Nov. 20, 1979)
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking (Jan. 31, 1980)
Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (Jan. 28, 1980)
Solid Rock (Nov. 27, 1979)
What Can I Do for You? (Nov. 27, 1979)
Saved (Jan. 12, 1980)
In the Garden (Jan. 27, 1980)

Disc 2: Live
Slow Train (June 29, 1981)
Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Unreleased song – Apr. 24, 1980)
Gotta Serve Somebody (July 15, 1981)
Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One (Unreleased song – Nov. 16, 1979)
Saving Grace (Nov. 6, 1979)
Blessed Is the Name (Unreleased song – Nov. 20, 1979)
Solid Rock (Oct. 23, 1981)
Are You Ready? (Apr. 30, 1980)
Pressing On (Nov. 6, 1979)
Shot of Love (July 25, 1981)
Dead Man, Dead Man (June 21, 1981)
Watered-Down Love (June 12, 1981)
In the Summertime (Oct. 21, 1981)
The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar (Nov. 13, 1980)
Caribbean Wind (Nov. 12, 1980)
Every Grain of Sand (Nov. 21, 1981)

Disc 3: Rare and Unreleased
Slow Train (Soundcheck – Oct. 5, 1978)
Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (Soundcheck – Dec. 7, 1978)
Help Me Understand (Unreleased song – Oct. 5, 1978)
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking (Rehearsal – Oct. 2, 1979)
Gotta Serve Somebody (Outtake – May 4, 1979)
When He Returns (Outtake – May 4, 1979)
Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One (Unreleased song – May 1, 1979)
Trouble in Mind (Outtake – April 30, 1979)
Ye Shall Be Changed (Outtake – May 2, 1979)
Covenant Woman (Outtake –February 11, 1980)
Stand by Faith (Unreleased song – Sept. 26, 1979)
I Will Love Him (Unreleased song – Apr. 19, 1980)
Jesus Is the One (Unreleased song – Jul. 17, 1981)
City of Gold (Unreleased song – Nov. 22, 1980)
Thief on the Cross (Unreleased song – Nov. 10, 1981)
Pressing On (Outtake – Feb. 13, 1980)

Disc 4: Rare and Unreleased
Slow Train (Rehearsal – Oct. 2, 1979)
Gotta Serve Somebody (Rehearsal – Oct. 9, 1979)
Making a Liar Out of Me (Unreleased song – Sept. 26, 1980)
Yonder Comes Sin (Unreleased song – Oct. 1, 1980)
Radio Spot January 1980, Portland, OR show
Cover Down, Pray Through (Unreleased song – May 1, 1980)
Rise Again (Unreleased song – Oct. 16, 1980)
Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Unreleased song – Dec. 2, 1980)
The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar (Outtake – May 1, 1981)
Caribbean Wind (Rehearsal – Sept. 23, 1980)
You Changed My Life (Outtake – April 23, 1981)
Shot of Love (Outtake – March 25, 1981)
Watered-Down Love (Outtake – May 15, 1981)
Dead Man, Dead Man (Outtake – April 24, 1981)
Every Grain of Sand (Rehearsal – Sept. 26, 1980)

Disc 5 – Live in Toronto 1980
Gotta Serve Somebody (April 18, 1980)
I Believe In You (April 18, 1980)
Covenant Woman (April 19, 1980)
When You Gonna Wake Up? (April 18, 1980)
When He Returns (April 20, 1980)
Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (Unreleased song – April 18, 1980)
Cover Down, Pray Through (Unreleased song – April 19, 1980)
Man Gave Names To All The Animals (April 19, 1980)
Precious Angel (April 19, 1980)

Disc 6 – Live in Toronto 1980
Slow Train (April 18, 1980)
Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (April 20, 1980)
Solid Rock (April 20, 1980)
Saving Grace (April 18, 1980)
What Can I Do For You? (April 19, 1980)
In The Garden (April 20, 1980)
Band Introductions (April 19, 1980)
Are You Ready? (April 19, 1980)
Pressing On (April 18, 1980)

Disc 7 – Live in Earl’s Court, London – June 27, 1981
Gotta Serve Somebody
I Believe In You
Like A Rolling Stone
Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Maggie’s Farm
I Don’t Believe You
Dead Man, Dead Man
Girl From The North Country
Ballad Of A Thin Man

Disc 8 – Live in Earl’s Court – London – June 27, 1981
Slow Train
Let’s Begin
Lenny Bruce
Mr. Tambourine Man
Solid Rock
Just Like A Woman
Watered-Down Love
Forever Young
When You Gonna Wake Up
In The Garden
Band Introductions
Blowin’ In The Wind
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Disc 9: Bonus DVD
Trouble No More – A Musical Film

DVD EXTRAS:
Shot of Love
Cover Down, Pray Through
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (Alternate version)
Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Complete version)
Precious Angel (Complete version)
Slow Train (Complete version)

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

New Order and Peter Hook reach “a full and final settlement”

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New Order and Peter Hook reach “a full and final settlement”
New Order have announced that they have reached "a full and final settlement" in the long running disputes with their former bassist Peter Hook. The band released the following statement: "The disputes were based upon Hook's use of various New Order and Joy Division assets on merchandising and in ...

New Order have announced that they have reached “a full and final settlement” in the long running disputes with their former bassist Peter Hook.

The band released the following statement:

“The disputes were based upon Hook’s use of various New Order and Joy Division assets on merchandising and in the promotion of shows by his new band, and the amount of money he receives from the use of the name New Order by his former colleagues since 2011.

“The Joy Division and New Order names mean a great deal to so many of the fans, and the band felt it important to protect the legacy.

“With these issues now dealt with, Bernard, Stephen and Gillian can continue to do what they do best, make music and perform live.”

Hook has yet to release a statement of his own.

The November 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring The Beatles on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with Beck, Michael Head, The Jacksons, Neil Finn and we celebrate the legacy of Woody Guthrie and remember Walter Becker. We review David Bowie, The Smiths, Margo Price, Robert Plant and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Gregg Allman, Margo Price, The Weather Station and more.

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